– One unintended consequence of SEC expansion: Hoover hired another complete crew of football officials. Stop and let that sink in for a minute: We now employ guys that previously couldn’t get hired over Mike Washington.

– What’s the dumbest, most smh, thing Dabo Swinney said yesterday? How about this little bite of word-salad, on the continued non-punishment of Sammy Watkins:

“I think he’s responded very well, but as far as any other comments at this time I’m still in the process, like my statement said, of gathering everything, all my thoughts and all the facts, and meeting with everybody involved, and then making a decision of where we will go from there as far as type of discipline we’ll put in place.”

– Today’s worst thread on what is an otherwise excellent college sports message board.